I Bought A Male Escort, Turns Out He's The Lycan King (by lg savage) novel Chapter 246

Chapter 246

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Her pain sliced through me sharper than any blade I’d ever taken, twisting through my chest hard enough to make it hard to breathe.

I’d expected this. I’d known opening those floodgates would destroy whatever fragile control she’d been clinging to, but there was no way I could have prepared for the sheer force of it.

The lights burst one after the other. Glass rained across the office as darkness swallowed the room, and every instinct inside me snapped awake at once.

Kitty’s power surged so violently that even my reinforced walls groaned around us. And still, shadows continued to explode outward from her feet in thick black waves, swallowing the desk, the ceiling, the walls, and the windows. The pressure hit my skin like a physical force, sharp enough that Tanner immediately moved in front of Rivers and Kostas, protecting Kitty and me when Rivers reached for his weapon.

But I barely noticed them.

For weeks, everything coming from Kitty had been distant until finally it had gone silent and cold. Cold in a way that had never felt natural. Now there were no walls.

After her pain, her grief crashed into me next. Not the controlled grief she’d carried after Zachary. Not the cold fury she’d weaponised against the world. This was raw, crushing, and bottomless devastation, the kind that hallowed a person out from the inside. It slammed through the bond so violently that my chest hurt.

Then came the guilt. Then horror.

Then shame so intense my beast snarled inside me in immediate rejection of it. No. Absolutely fucking not.

She curled forward in the chair, both hands gripping the armrests so tightly the wood cracked beneath her fingers.

“What have I done?” she whispered again.

The shadows swirled harder around her, forming a cyclone through my office. The discarded file lifted into the air along with all the loose papers scattered on my desk, and furniture scraped against the polished floor as the room shook around us.

“Kitty.” I moved directly in front of her, crouching despite the magic tearing through the room around us.

“Look at me.”

She didn’t.

Her breathing turned uneven as more emotions ripped through the bond. And I knew this wasn’t just about us. Years of hatred. Years of grief. Every belief she’d built herself around was collapsing in real time. And beneath it all sat something far worse.

Self-loathing.

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That one nearly brought me to my knees. Because none of this was her fault. I’d said some shit to Christos, and I’d hated what the Lordswood name represented. I’d hated the bloodline before I ever met Kitty.

But not her. Never her. She was innocent in all this. None of this blood was on her hands.

I grabbed her wrists before the shadows could spread further. Her skin was still ice-cold.

“Kitty.”

Her eyes finally snapped to mine. Violet flashed so brightly her pupils almost illuminated the darkness.

“We need to calm this down.”

Bronson was still on the floor, probably trying to force his way into my office already. A power surge like this wouldn’t go unnoticed.

“We’re the monsters,” she whispered hoarsely. “I’m the monster.”

“No.”

Behind me, another light exploded. Rivers shifted closer to the wall as the shadows lashed across the floor towards him before stopping inches from his face, abruptly freezing in the shape of phantom jaws.

“She’s losing control,” he warned.

“Why would you think this shit would help anyone?” Kostas growled. “The witches have won. We’ll be surrounded in seconds.”

“She’s not losing control,” I said.

I could feel the difference through the bond. This wasn’t possession; this wasn’t the witches forcing their way through the cracks in her mind. This was Kitty finally feeling again.

And Goddess, that terrified me more. Because this was the moment that would make us or break us. Save us or destroy us completely. The truth had finally broken through all the numbness she’d wrapped around herself, and now I had no idea what would remain once the dust settled.

I’d gambled with our relationship again.

Her breathing hitched as another violent wave of emotion slammed through the bond.

“I killed people because I believed this lie,” she said quietly. “I hated you for it. I almost killed us. I almost―”

“You had every right to believe it.”

“No.” Her voice cracked as she yanked her hands free from mine. “No, I didn’t. I should have questioned things. I should have known something was wrong. Generations of family don’t just disappear if…”

The shadows slammed into the ceiling hard enough to shake the office. Tanner swore under his breath but didn’t move from his position. Movement pulsed outside the secured doors. Bronson was back.

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Alarms suddenly screamed through the hallway outside, and everyone’s attention snapped towards the sound. Kostas stepped forward immediately, but Tanner blocked him before he could make it to Kitty.

“What have you done to her, Hunter?” he growled. “What the fuck is all this?”

My beast barely reacted to the challenge. Once, hearing aggression from Kostas would have irritated me. Now, all my focus remained locked on my mate.

Kostas snatched one of the papers from the whirlwind of shadows and looked down. I watched the exact second understanding hit him.

He lowered the paper, his eyes flashing yellow.

“We need to move,” he said quietly. “Now.”

“Not yet,” I snapped.

Kitty was still spiralling. If we shoved her into the car like this, she’d either collapse completely or tear through everyone around her trying to contain herself.

The bond twisted sharply, spilling everything into me again. Grief. Guilt. And then another one. One that hurt the worst of all.

Fear.

Our eyes met, and I saw it clearly. She thought I would hate her now.

“Listen to me carefully.” I took her hands again, forcing her attention back to me. “You are not responsible for the sins of dead men, just like I’m not responsible for what my uncle did.”

“They’re my family.” Her voice shook. “Their blood runs through me. We’re the same.”

“You could never be the same.”

Anger flickered beneath the grief then. Real anger this time, not the hollow rage she’d been hiding inside before. And fuck, it was almost a relief. I’d take her fury over numbness any day.

“You don’t know what I did,” she hissed.

But I did. The images her wolf had passed to me when the bond evolved flashed through my head. I’d seen what her bloodlust looked like. I’d felt it.

Something slammed against the office doors, and Kitty jolted, her head snapping towards the sound. The shadows immediately stopped cold, and the room fell silent.

I felt it immediately. Her instincts shifted. Every chaotic emotion flooding the bond vanished beneath one sharp, predatory instinct. The instinct she’d inherited from me.

The urge to hunt hit her so hard that my own beast rose instantly in response. He would always answer his mate’s call.

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The pressure in the room changed again. Shadows recoiled back towards her body in sharp, violent movements. The hunger in her eyes twisted something deep in my stomach-not because I was scared, but because I recognised it. This was the power of the white wolf. The power to hold even a Lycan King in the palm of her hand.

Kitty stood slowly, and I rose with her, my movements smooth as I watched her carefully. Waiting for her signal. Her command. The bond pulsed harder between us, even though it was fractured and damaged. But it was no longer dying.

Feeling her again after weeks of emptiness nearly broke me. But this pain was better.

The doors slammed again. Plaster cracked loose from the ceiling as metal shrieked under the pressure.

Everyone turned to it, knowing what was coming now. Rivers rolled his neck, dropping the weapon to the floor as if he was confident he didn’t need it. A twisted smile appeared on Kostas’ face as he crumpled the paper in his hand and threw it aside. Tanner cracked his knuckles and glanced back, waiting for my command.

No, for Kitty’s command. Because even he felt it now.

My beast finally lifted his head fully inside my chest, and I exhaled slowly. We were ready.

But Kitty lowered her head and stepped back instead. The hunger inside both of us dulled immediately as guilt surged through the bond again. I felt the fight inside her—against herself, against the pull inside her demanding blood. Against the fear that this darkness made her exactly like the people in that file.

“We should leave,” she said quietly.

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